Global Media, Neoliberalism, and Imperialism

Rethinking journalism for supporting social cohesion and democracy: case study of media performance in Fiji

“…R. Singh, 2011). As a subsidiary of a global media conglomerate, it is plausible that the Fiji Times' foreign ownership had a knock-on influence on the paper's domestic coverage in terms of an overarching neoliberal philosophy that binds virtually all News Limited publications (see Hall, 2011;McChesney, 2001). This shows how local conflicts could be affected by greater global forces.…”

The Manifestation of Neoliberalism in Digital Migration: An Extension of Hegemony

“…Scholars who have attempted to synthesize media and neoliberalism have done so in a variety of ways. Although some argue that compared to other "prominent social science concepts such as democracy, the meaning and proper usage of neoliberalism [has] elicited little scholarly debate" (Boas and Gans-Morse, 2009: 137), research has been dedicated to understanding neoliberal policies and the deregulation of the media (Brown 1991;Blevins 2007), the commercialization of the global media market (McChesney, 2001), its relationship to journalism (Fenton, 2011), and the emergence of transnational corporations using the free-market rhetoric to justify their actions (Herman and McChesney (1997). In all of these approaches take a normative critique which questions the relationship between democracy and the media, alongside the growing market-driven economy that has expanded rapidly since the 1970s (cf.…”

Producing Reality: Television Formats and Reality TV in the Canadian Context

“…Neoliberal models of governance (mcChesney, 2001;miller, 2007), together with new media technologies and the international expansion of capital, have altered cultural production. We have seen the proliferation of national and global TV channels, new distribution mechanisms and outlets, increasing privatization and defunding of public systems, the fragmentation of audiences and advertising dollars, and production practices that favour cheaper and risk-averse product that…”